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11 Jan

"Fire it!"

Lt. John R. Fox ordered the US airmen above him to fire a strike at his exact coordinates on a December 26th morning during WWII.

He knew the strike he just ordered would kill him...but it didn't matter.

He made the call anyways.

Lt. Fox was a hero.

His story👇:

We start in the 1930s.

John Robert Fox from Cincinnati was a young man studying engineering at (The) Ohio State University.

But after only a few semesters, Fox was forced to move 60 miles west on I-71, where he'd transfer to another Ohio school:

Wilberforce University.

Why transfer, you ask?

Well, Fox had an interest in military service and wanted to enroll in the ROTC: a program that prepares students to become US Military officers.

The issue?

Ohio State - like nearly every other school at the time - didn't let black students join the ROTC.

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David Zabinsky

@DavidZabinsky

9 Jan

Have any idea what these numbers mean?

Well, if you did, then you'd be the first in the world to crack this indecipherable code...a code that would reveal the whereabouts of $80 million worth of buried treasure.

Fact? Fiction?

To this date...no one knows.

Time for a story👇:

We start with some history.

It was the early 1800s.

Thomas Beale and 30 of his adventure-seeking friends headed west from Virginia on a boys' trip to go hunt some buffalo.

But buffalo wasn't the only thing they'd find.

They'd find gold. And silver.

Shitloads of it.

So Beale and his friends?

They started digging. And before they knew it, they had themselves a stack of precious metals.

Beale wrote:

"Every one was diligently at work with such tools and appliances as they had improvised, and quite a little pile had already accumulated."

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David Zabinsky

@DavidZabinsky

5 Jan

If you were at war, you'd take things like a helmet, a radio, and a rifle, right?

Well, not if you were British Major Digby Tatham-Warter.

He took things like a bowler hat, a bugle, and an UMBRELLA.

Get ready for a story about WWII's most courageous and eccentric major:

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Digby Tatham-Warter. Oh man. Where to begin?

I suppose we can start in 1937, when Digby graduated from Britain's Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

After graduating, Digby was immediately sent to serve in India, but the post was quite...chill.

As an avid tiger hunter, Digby spent more time in India shooting tigers than he did enemy soldiers.

But when his brother was killed in action during WWII in 1942, Digby requested a transfer, and by 1943, Digby was already leading Britain's "A" Company in the European theatre.

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David Zabinsky

@DavidZabinsky

2 Jan

Have you ever heard of William Walker from Nashville, Tennessee?

The dude who (successfully) declared himself President of a foreign country not once...but twice?

Well if not, buckle in and grab yourself a bag of popcorn, 'cause you're in for one hell of a story:

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Before we begin, it's important to define two ideologies that very much shaped American sentiment and policy in the 1800s:

1) Manifest Destiny

2) Filibustering

Let's start with Manifest Destiny:

In the 1800s, many Americans believed they were destined by a "Divine Providence" to expand into other territories, be it in the West or elsewhere.

To spread American exceptionalism?

To displace Native populations?

It was their..."destiny."

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David Zabinsky

@DavidZabinsky

29 Dec 21

Want to be more interesting in 2022?

I spent half of 2021 tweeting important and hard-to-believe stories...stories you were probably never taught in school.

And now, they’re all available in one place...for you to read and share with your friends.

The collection:

Before we dive into this seemingly eternal rabbit hole, let's take a look at the Table of Contents:

I. ANTHROPOLOGY: 8 Stories About People

II. HISTORY: 8 Hard-To-Believe Historical Events

III. GEOGRAPHY: 13 Fascinating Places Around the World

Ready?

Let's get started:

https://twitter.com/DavidZabinsky/status/1468969086029758470?s=20

ANTHROPOLOGY: Stories About People (1/8)

Who: Henry Johnson and the Harlem Hellfighters

Why it's important: It's a story of the worst and best of humankind; an African-American soldier shows heroic bravery in the face of both peril and hate during WWI:

https://twitter.com/DavidZabinsky/status/1468969086029758470?s=20

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David Zabinsky

@DavidZabinsky

27 Dec 21

In 1997, they declared war.

And it'd take a team of elite snipers, ruthless aerial assaults, and multi-million-dollar tracking technology in order to find and kill the enemy.

But who was the enemy, you ask?

Goats.

200,000 of them.

A thread on the "Goat War" of the Galápagos:

We start in the 1830s.

Charles Darwin shocked the world with his theories on evolution upon studying South American finches.

That is, Darwin saw 18 distinct types of finch throughout the Galápagos Islands, arguing each species had to evolve in order to survive its environment.

For Darwin, with the Galápagos Islands full of such unique and beautiful biodiversity, the archipelago was a "little world within itself."

A little world that boasts some of the universe's most stunning creatures, like the Marine Iguana...

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